298 ANNUALS “REGISTER; 1797. 
for, and the commiffions charged 
with the examination of them have 
pronounced to “be neceffary, the 
dangers’ with which we are. threat~ 
ened will difappear. Our ‘enemies 
know that France, with her prefent 
‘conftitution, has only to exprefs a 
with to ameliorate her finances, 
that the means of courfe will follow, 
and that; if thefe méans be well 
employed, they muft produce the 
defired effet. It is time, Citizens 
Reprefentatives, to juftify that opi- 
nion, by deliberations that will give 
validity to it. ‘The fafety of the 
couhtry is intimately connected with 
them. © Let ‘the fituation’ of our 
finances be once ainéliorated, and 
peace -will naturally find its way 
back to our territories. Under its 
aufpices all the French will feap the 
fruits of their 'elorious efforts in the 
catife: which’ they have made tri- 
UMApPh eM 
~The Executive Diretory, Citi- 
zens Reprefentatives, renews its 
moft preffing invitations that you 
may -take into your difcuffion the 
faws relative to the finances and the 
receipts, which may place the reve- 
nue on a par with the indifpenfable 
difburfements of the ftate. 
(Signed) 
~ Carnot, Prefident. 
Lacarve, Secretary General. 
WMeffage from the DireSory to the Council 
of Five Flundved on the \Oth of Auguft, 
in Anfrcer to the’ Refolution of the Coun- 
ed veffiecting the March of the Troops 
within the’ Conftitutional-Limits. 
, Citizens Reprefentatives, 
The Executive Direétory delayed 
replying to your meflage of the 17th 
of this month, relative to the march- 
ing orders’given to four regiments 
‘of chaffeurs; which were to pals by 
Ferte-Alais, in the expé&ation that 
the report of the committee of in~- 
fpectors, upon which that meflage 
had been adopted, would be printed. 
It is not yet printed; but the Di- 
rectory, who in the mean time have 
been collecting the documents, they: 
were defirous of procuring refpect- 
ing the route: of thefe troops, con~ 
fider it their duty to tranfmit to 
you {uch iriformation as has reach~ 
ed them. 
Citizen Lefage, Commiffary ‘of, : 
War, has: made the following de- 
claration upon this fubject: 
“ Citizen Lefage, Commiffary of 
War for the army of the Sambre 
and Meufe, charged with the police 
of the divifion of chaffeurs com~ 
manded by General Richepaufe, 
certifies, that after the faid General 
had given to him, at Durenne, the 
itinerary of the »route which this 
divifion was to obferve in going to 
Chartres (an itinerary which was 
entirely written by General Riche- 
paufe, but not figned by him) he 
received at Aix la Chapelle ‘the 
order of proceeding in that deftina- 
tion, and preparing, beforehand, 
at the places pointed out, the ne- 
ceflary provifions and quarters for 
four regiments which compofed 
that divifion, but which were only 
to arrive in fucceffion at three reft- 
ing places; that, without examin- 
ing the itinerary which had ‘been 
given to him, or knowing that 
Ferte-Alais was within the confti-+ 
tutional limits of Paris, he expe- 
dited the order for the route,’ in 
confequence of which the troops 
were'to march—that. he followed 
the route to Rheims—that, being 
there affured that the letters he had 
written to Charleville, with direc- - 
tions to the municipalities of the 
places through which the troops 
: “i Oh ee 
